Whether as a way to bolster the reel or as relief from the pressures of briefs and budgets, short films provide a welcome outlet for self-expression and experimentation with 2023 delivering an extraordinary crop of work. [Watch]
With so many screens vying for viewers attention, the creative task of packaging big-budget television and streaming programming has never been more important or come with so much pressure to make a dent in popular culture. [Watch]
London CG studio Panoply fosters a culture of active curiosity when it comes to their chosen medium, producing a steady flow of in-house motion experiments. That restless R&D mindset recently caught the attention of Marvel Studios. [Watch]
Panoply creative director Mark Lindner: “Verizon approached us to create a package of interstitials to accompany promotions for nine different programing genres on their Fios on Demand service.” [Watch]
The popularity of what we might call CG magic realism continued to expand in 2019 as more creators and clients embraced the power of hyper-real 3D to transport viewers to surreal and abstract worlds with spellbinding clarity. [Watch]
Director Mark Lindner at London studio Panoply says the studio’s sleek and fractured new CG opus “Genesis” draws “heavily on a visual currency distilled from the subconscious and the psychology of self [and] dares us to fleetingly glimpse our own origins, our civilization and the known universe.” Audio by Echoic. [Watch]
